CRUELTY IN SPORT.
,[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—There is one point not •touched upon by Mr. Gwynn in his interesting essay on this subject, which to my mind affords a complete answer to the letter by " A Medical Prac- titioner." A sportsman does indeed inflict some pain, but he .saves much mere pain than he inflicts. Nature kills continuously, cruelly, horribly. The sportsman quickly, and with as little pain as possible. Who that has seen a trout being slowly eaten alive by •an attack of " Saprolegnia Ferox " would deny that the swift death inflicted by the angler is not more merciful ? For remember no true fisherman allows his capture to "drown in the air" as "A medical prac- titioner" says, but knocks it on the head at once. As I have no wish to be -inundated by letters from fanatics,. I enclose my card, but subscribe myself PISCATOR.
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